Rands talks about "JERKCITY", pt. 1
Q: WHERE DID THE NAME JERKCITY COME FROM?
A: The domain was thought up in 1998 independently of any actual use for it. A good domain name should just reek of good uses. Obviously, Jerkcity did. Thoughts of the ultimate MASTURBATION site came to mind, but seemed like a lot of work, and besides, I really didn’t want end up given teenagers tips on jerking. That is best a quest of self discovery
Q:
HOW DO YOU DRAW THE STRIPS?
A: We don’t. As is commonly known, we use a discontinued program called Microsoft Comic Chat. The dialog comes from a database of FUNNY SHIT said by JERKFOLK in a PRIVATE PLACE. We’ve significantly automated this process so that the generation of raw strips is very simple. Once the basic strp is done, we add the usul URL/TITLE/GRAYTEXT. Many strips are done completely OUTSIDE of Comic Chat when WE AREN’T TOO STONED TO SEE STRAIGHT.
Q: WHO ACTUALLY DOES THE STRIPS?
A: The mantel of JERK_STRIPPER has gone back and forth over the years. Rands started the strip back in August 1998. A few months later, Pants got hooked and he began generating strips as well as providing support for the care and feeding of the site. THEN RANDS LIFE GOT INTERESTING and Pants pretty much ran the thing for many months slash years… it was during this time that the JERKCITY MACHINE was really create in the form of all sorts of wacky Perl scripts made strip publishing really simple.
Strip creation is now essentially shared between Rands and Pants, but HE’S MUCH FASTER THAN I.
Q: WHAT IS FOJ?
A: I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Q: I WANT TO BE A PART OF JERKCITY — WHERE IS THE IRC SERVER? I AM REALLY FUCKING FUNNY.
A: I’m sure you are, but no.
I realize Rands is very busy. But I must insist that when Rands acquires a smidge of spare time, he review a cd created by a group of techie-dork-musicians called Sparge. There are 2.8 million (slight exaggeration), Jerkcity references embedded within each Sparge release (of which there are four). Where shall we send the cd to?
Regrards,
girl sparge
